Best Buy flyer from September 1996

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[Ignignokt]

tfw, you'll never ever live in a pre 9/11 world.
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[Blake]

I didn't realize Acer was that old

[Ignignokt]

Columbine High Class Photo

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[Ignignokt]

everybody dress like a bro/alpha back then. Now 3/4 of the male population dress like chris martin, or some hipster effeminate redux.

[FkLA]

Good times tbh.

[Ignignokt]

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[benefactor]

I didn't realize Acer was that old
Neither did I.

:lol those CD players with electronic skip protection. They still skipped like hell in your car.

[DJR210]

Used to love the Best Buy ads when I was a kid..no better material to take a shit to IMO

[m>s]

holy fuck i didn't see one shitskin in that entire pic

[DJR210]

:lol The cost of electronics was all fucked up back then.. 1100.00 for a shitty 35" CRT TV..199.00 for some shitty ass little boombox..69.00 for a Discman..smh

[SnakeBoy]

That was a good sale. I went all out and got the 16MB memory. Fuck Yeah Bitches :hat

[benefactor]

I worked at an electronics/appliance repair shop around this time. Most of these VCR's were cheaply built pieces of shit. We were constantly having to clean the heads on them and the gears were always fucking up on the tape loaders. The older top loaders were a lot more reliable but damn, they weighed like fifty pounds.

[Brazil]

:lol cool cell phones tbh

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao $70 for a pager

[benefactor]

:lol cool cell phones tbh
That ain't shit nigga...I had one of these:

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[Bill_Brasky]

systems were the shit back in the day :lol

[Brazil]

That ain't shit nigga...I had one of these:

http://www.nokiatividade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/NOKIA-5165.jpg

:lol I had that too but that was an advanced generation compared to my first one nokia

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

I remember when cds were that price then a couple years later when Napster came out they jacked it up to $20 because they knew they were fucked

[tlongII]

Those appliances were cheap though!

[DJR210]

That ain't shit nigga...I had one of these:

http://www.nokiatividade.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/NOKIA-5165.jpg

Hell fuckin yeah, my first cell..To make things worse it was a Tracfone so you burn a unit for checking the damn time :lol

[Jacob1983]

2500 for a laptop that doesn't have 1 gigabyte of hard drive space? We were fuckin stupid in 1996.

[DMX7]

Computers were such a fucking ripoff... and bear in mind that these prices are obviously not adjusted for inflation.

[xmas1997]

2500 for a laptop that doesn't have 1 gigabyte of hard drive space? We were fuckin stupid in 1996.


We still are.

Look at what we pay for cell phones now.

But are they water proof (not water resistant)?

Yet they could be, and should be!

[DMX7]

2500 for a laptop that doesn't have 1 gigabyte of hard drive space? We were fuckin stupid in 1996.

People weren't really storing media collections on their PC in 1996, but yeah, 1 GB wasn't much.

[Spur|n|Austin]

That ain't shit nigga...I had one of these:

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Snake.. All day errday

[Venti Quattro]

:lol Montell Jordan CD

[DMX7]

I had that Nokia phone. No lie.

[xmas1997]

I had that Nokia phone. No lie.

So did I.

[The Reckoning]

Computers were such a fucking ripoff... and bear in mind that these prices are obviously not adjusted for inflation.


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[Strange Love]

Having computers then was a big deal.

[DeadlyDynasty]

The Good Son was a fucked up movie tbh

[Floyd Pacquiao]

:cry wishbone

[InRareForm]

we are still using outdated sound quality cd's. not much has changed in that regard.

[Jacob1983]

The VHS part cracked me up. I also loved the audio cassette tape prices. Those are very hard to find. VCRs were badass back in the day.

[DJR210]

Sony 4 Head (!!) VCR on sale now through Monday for only 299.99!!

[benefactor]

Didn't even notice that the fax machine was one of those paper roll faxes until I read back through just now. I forgot those even existed.

[JoeTait75]

That was back when dudes would roll around in $200 cars with $800 systems in the back. Maybe they still do that, I don't know.

[Franklin]

Having computers then was a big deal.
true, it was 10yrs later when I got my first computer tbh. What do you think of my latest Lunar Goddess poem btw?
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239594&p=7604955#post7604955

[baseline bum]

:lol Packard Bell computers

[Leetonidas]

8mb memory on those computers :lmao holy shit

[The Gemini Method]

det Dru Down album tho

[DarrinS]

Spoiled-ass kids. Do you understand how good you have it these days. PC's were even slower and more expensive in late 80's- early 90's.

[baseline bum]

Spoiled-ass kids. Do you understand how good you have it these days. PC's were even slower and more expensive in late 80's- early 90's.

I can't believe the ridiculous markup you used to have in boxed desktop computers. I remember when I built my first one it was about $800 and outperformed $1500 retail boxes.

[Jeff Leppard]

Wow! Who gives a shit?

[DarrinS]

I can't believe the ridiculous markup you used to have in boxed desktop computers. I remember when I built my first one it was about $800 and outperformed $1500 retail boxes.


A friend of mine had a Silicon Graphics Indigo workstation. I believe he had $50k in total hardware.

Your low-end PC's of today could outperform that machine.

[CosmicCowboy]

I remember buying an IBM-XT with a dot matrix printer for about $7000. Had a screaming 128KB of Ram and a 10 MB hard drive. That was hot shit at the time. Wordstar was the hot word processing software pre-windows word.

[CosmicCowboy]

Later on I had a cell phone mounted in my truck that honked the horn when it rang and a motorola brick I paid $1250 for.

[Agloco]

Computers were such a fucking ripoff... and bear in mind that these prices are obviously not adjusted for inflation.

Not much has changed in 18 years.